It’s too expensive to be an artist in this country. Used to be able to work a few shifts somewhere to earn enough for food, rent, art and a drink from time to time. Now a full time job barely pays enough to rent a shoebox. The soul crushing boot of neolibralism strikes again.
It’s too expensive to be an artist in this country. Used to be able to work a few shifts somewhere to earn enough for food, rent, art and a drink from time to time. Now a full time job barely pays enough to rent a shoebox. The soul crushing boot of neolibralism strikes again.
Yeah the only people who can afford it now are wealthy kids, trust fund kids.
There was once a time our decent social services underwrote the development of performing arts but that’s squeezed out now by housing and life costs.
It’s pretty obvious why it’s dying; the same reasons birth rates are falling. The major parties aren’t hearing it though.